by Niran Adedokun | Aug 23, 2022 | Miscellaneous
I watched Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo’s two recent television interviews with absolute bewilderment. And if the situation in Nigeria was not so grim currently, one would laugh at the minister’s posturing during these conversations. For...
by Niran Adedokun | Aug 23, 2022 | Miscellaneous
I can imagine the self-righteous anger rising in many readers at the sight of this headline. I am sure many people would ask: “What the hell does this writer think he is talking about? How dare he compare us to danfo drivers?” I get it. But that is all that it is—mere...
by Niran Adedokun | Aug 23, 2022 | Miscellaneous
Sometime in the 1970s, the Juju music maestro, then known as Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey, did a track wherein a line lamented the cheapness of death in the country. The line “iku di mejiepinni,” meaning “death has become two for a penny,” spoke about the frequency...
by Niran Adedokun | Aug 23, 2022 | Miscellaneous
To balk under pressure and again avoid the planned removal of the subsidy on petrol, as the President General Muhammadu Buhari, did on Tuesday, is one reason Nigerians must understand what they need in a future president. Someone said that the difference between a...
by Niran Adedokun | Aug 23, 2022 | Miscellaneous
I should make two quick points before I proceed with this. One, I absolutely do not like the ethnic colouration that we give politics in Nigeria. I think that as a country, the best way to attain the height of our potentials is to move together as one, not allowing...
